Another devastating chapter has been added to the Kennedy family’s tragic history.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died just weeks after revealing she was battling a rare and terminal form of leukemia — reigniting grim talk of the so-called “Kennedy curse” that has haunted America’s most famous political dynasty for generations.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” her family announced in a heartbreaking Instagram post, shared alongside a peaceful image of Schlossberg gazing out at the ocean. The message was signed by her husband, George Moran, their children, and members of the extended Kennedy family.
Schlossberg’s death comes only five weeks after she stunned readers with a raw, intimate essay published in The New Yorker, where she revealed she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — an aggressive blood cancer — shortly after giving birth to her daughter in May 2024.
In the essay, titled The Battle With My Blood, Schlossberg described how what should have been one of the happiest moments of her life quickly turned into a nightmare. A routine blood test raised alarms when her white blood cell count came back dangerously high.
Her doctor warned her it could be something related to pregnancy — or something far worse.
It was leukemia.
Even more devastating, Schlossberg revealed her cancer carried a rare Inversion 3 mutation, a form most commonly seen in much older patients and associated with poor outcomes. The diagnosis left her and her husband reeling.
“I had a son whom I loved more than anything, and a newborn I needed to take care of,” she wrote. “This could not possibly be my life.”
Friends and readers alike were stunned by the cruel twist. Schlossberg described herself as exceptionally healthy, swimming a mile the day before giving birth and regularly running up to 10 miles through New York City’s Central Park. Illness, she wrote, was the last thing she ever expected.
Her sudden decline has reopened long-standing speculation surrounding the “Kennedy curse,” a phrase often invoked to describe the extraordinary number of premature deaths, assassinations, accidents, and illnesses that have plagued the family — from President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to plane crashes, overdoses, and now cancer striking yet another young generation.
Schlossberg, a writer and environmental advocate, was the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy and the niece of John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash. Many online mourners pointed to the eerie pattern, calling her death “another unbearable blow” to a family already synonymous with tragedy.
Tatiana Schlossberg leaves behind her husband, George Moran, their young children, and a legacy defined not only by her famous last name, but by her haunting final words — a public farewell that now reads like a tragic warning from a family that can never seem to outrun its past.
She is now with the Lord and will watch from above.
I was just thinking this morning how LBJ destroyed the United States and how JFK wouldn’t have. Thanks a lot, CIA.
The Father Joesph was at the time rumored a woman put a curse on him looks like it is true
I wonder how many generations out or removed this will continue. The old man, with his Robber-Baron tactics did make a LOT of enemies in his day !